Tailored strategies to address students' finances, academic success and socio-emotional connections with an institution or program can help keep students in school.
Attrition rates are high for part-time and online students, but it’s important we keep providing these modes of study.
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We should accept a modest level of attrition so we can keep providing opportunities for part-time and online students, who might not otherwise be able to study.
University attrition or ‘drop-out’ rates are at their highest level since 2005.
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The latest Selected Higher Education Statistics have revealed an increase in student attrition, or the percentage of students commencing in 2013 who neither completed nor re-enrolled in 2014.
Ghana’s education system has been slammed in a new global report. Could making schools more culturally savvy fix the problem?
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Critics of Ghana's education system suggest that making local cultural values a fundamental part of the education system will create a happier, more harmonious society.
Many students drop out of online degrees because they don’t feel a sense of belonging with the course or university.
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For the past couple of years Australian universities’ enthusiasm for online learning has increased, following the lead of international universities in realising the potential of MOOCs to replace traditional…